Title: Site Reliability EngineerEnd Date: 02/25/2020 w/ possibility of extension Position Type: ContractLocation: San Francisco, CA, United States

Duties:
Site reliability engineer to help with uniformity in deployment services, automate wherever possible, increase monitoring capabilities, and manage capacity and performance to help scale Pinterest infrastructure. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for the overall performance and reliability of Pinterest's infrastructure and products. SREs design and implement the tools that automate building reliable and performant systems.

Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.) Work with product engineering teams on design and implementation choices of large scale distributed systems Automate as much as humanly possible and always configure as code Bring ideas to life (i.e. production) to help make the lives of engineers better Predict our future failures and work proactively to mitigate them

Skills:
Experience bringing software to production at high scale The knack for writing, clean, readable, maintainable code An eye for automation and instrumentation The ability to decompose complex systems and find failure scenarios Great communication skills